Improvement in riveting plates for boots and shoes



A."V-AN WAGENIEN. Riveting-Plates for Bnpts and Shoes.l N0 155,34.9,Parentedsepnzznan.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

ALBERT VAN VAGENEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN RIVETING PLATES FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,349, datedSeptember 22,1874 application filed May 27, 1874.

clare the same to be fully described in the following specification andrepresented in the accompanying drawings.

The object of the invention is not only to protect from injury by thenails the shoe-supporting horn or arm of the nailing-machine,

(viz., the well-known McKay shoe-nailing ma-- chine, or one as describedin the United States Patent, No. 76,150, to Blake and Libby,) but toaiford a means of keeping` in shape and in proper position the boot orshoe while being nailed, or while the upper, the insole, and the outersole may be in the process of being united by metallic fastenings drivenor inserted through them from the tread-surface of the outer sole, suchfastenings being usually clinched against the said plate or clincher.

Of the said drawings, Figurel is a top view, Fig. 2 a bottom view, Fig.3 an edge view, Fig. 4 a longitudinal section, Fig. 5 a transversesection, and Fig. 6 a perspective view, of one of the said rivetingplates or clinchers.

It is a thick plate of met-al, A, formed like an ordinary sole, and whenused is to go within the shoe or boot, and rest against and lit closelyto the inner surface of theinsole there of. It is to be provided, at ornear the heel part of it, with a staple, B, to project from its innersurface, as shown, to enable it to be readily extracted from the shoe orboot by means of a hook.

In the lower surface of the plate, or that which is to rest upon theupper part of the horn or arm of the nailing-machine, such plate has arabbet or groove, a, suitably formed to receive the upper part of thearm or horn, and thereby keep the plate in its due relation thereuponwhile being moved around upon the said horn. The plate without therabbet or groove is liable to slip laterally on the horn, while the shoemay be in movement or fed along, or in the act of being nailed. Vith myplate, which is solid from edge to edge, a shoe or boot may have nailsinserted in any part ot' the tread of the outer sole.

My said plate is to be inserted in the shoe or boot after the last mayhave been Withdrawn therefrom, and is in no sense to constitute part ofa last.

It yenables ordinary wooden lasts to be used in lasting shoes, and savesthe necessity ot making each last with a detachable plate to constitutepart of it, and remain in the shoe after withdrawal of the rest of thelast, for the purpose of enabling the shoe to be nailed.

I claim- 1. The shoe-sole-support plate A, provided in its inner surfacewith the staple D, all as described.

2. The shoe-sole-support plate A, provided on its inner or concaved sidewith the rabbet or groove a, arranged in and around it, substantially asand for the purpose specified.

. A. VAN VAGENEN. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW.

